Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution / His Life and Work

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A. S. Packard

PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I BIRTH, FAMILY, YOUTH, AND MILITARY CAREER

CHAPTER II STUDENT LIFE AND BOTANICAL CAREER

CHAPTER III LAMARCK'S SHARE IN THE REORGANIZATION OF THE JARDIN DES PLANTES AND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

CHAPTER IV PROFESSOR OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY AT THE MUSEUM

CHAPTER V LAST DAYS AND DEATH

CHAPTER VI POSITION IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE; OPINIONS OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES AND SOME LATER BIOLOGISTS

CHAPTER VII LAMARCK'S WORK IN METEOROLOGY AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE

CHAPTER VIII LAMARCK'S WORK IN GEOLOGY

CHAPTER IX LAMARCK THE FOUNDER OF INVERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY

CHAPTER X LAMARCK'S OPINIONS ON GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOLOGY

CHAPTER XI LAMARCK AS A BOTANIST

CHAPTER XII LAMARCK THE ZOOLOGIST

CHAPTER XIII THE EVOLUTIONARY VIEWS OF BUFFON AND OF GEOFFROY ST. HILAIRE

CHAPTER XIV THE VIEWS OF ERASMUS DARWIN

CHAPTER XV WHEN DID LAMARCK CHANGE HIS VIEWS REGARDING THE MUTABILITY OF SPECIES?

CHAPTER XVI THE STEPS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF LAMARCK'S VIEWS ON

CHAPTER XIX LAMARCK'S THOUGHTS ON MORALS, AND ON THE RELATION BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION

Motif from the cover of the book

LAMARCK

Profile of Lamarck; yellowed paper, background in brown

Attempt at a reconstruction of the Profile of Lamarck  from an unpublished etching by Dr. Cachet

LAMARCK
THE FOUNDER OF EVOLUTION

HIS LIFE AND WORK

WITH TRANSLATIONS OF HIS
WRITINGS ON ORGANIC EVOLUTION

By
ALPHEUS S. PACKARD, M.D., LL.D.
Professor of ZoÖlogy and Geology in Brown University; author of “Guide to the
Study of Insects,” “Text-book of Entomology,” etc., etc.

“La postÉritÉ vous honorera!”
—Mlle. Cornelie de Lamarck

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Copyright, 1901, by
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